ROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI

Earlier this week, China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba announced that the company will invest $15 billion in R&D projects in the next five years and open seven tech labs across the globe—an initiative it’s calling DAMO Academy. DAMO is a mouthful that stands for “Discovery, Adventure, Momentum, and Outlook,” and highlights Alibaba’s ambition to turn itself…

TOKYO – Fujitsu received an order for Japan’s fastest supercomputer from a national research institute, with the goal of providing development infras

SoftBank leads $93 million investment in AI startup Petuum

When Numerai launched in December 2015, it was a one page website that looked like a Kaggle data science competition except everything was black and more cinematic. We didn’t want it to look like any…

The Bank of New Zealand has become one of the first users of Intel’s Saffron platform

China’s AI Awakening
中国 人工智能 的崛起

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At an event in San Francisco today (Oct. 4), Google unveiled a veritable armada of new gadgets, mostly centered around the company’s artificial intelligence and machine-learning work. Here’s a rundown of what was announced: Pixel 2 Google unveiled two models of the Pixel 2, its follow-up to the new phone line it released last year….

This popular internet meme demonstrates the alarming resemblance shared between chihuahuas and muffins. These images are commonly shared in presentations in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry…

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That’s enough to have a car drive fully autonomously, according to the chipmaker.

China’s largest e-commerce company is heading to the little red dot as its first destination in a $15 billion R&D push, as it seeks to become a global tech giant capable of competing with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. On Wednesday, at its annual cloud computing conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba CTO Jeff Zhang…

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